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Culture. For other uses, see Culture (disambiguation). Culture ... embedded. For them,
culture thus includes art, science, as well as moral systems. ...
Which organizational culture fits you? Introduction What is organizational Culture?
Culture ... people. How important organizational Culture is? ...
popular culture should be a popular course. ... Popular culture is what is popular
to people, such as movies, sports, music, and books. ...
Culture And Psychology. Culture: A Basis for Development or Not? ... However, not all
research relies on culture as a basis for development and disability. ...
Culture Shock. Culture Shock The way two storms clash together to create a monster
more powerful than either, so is the way with culture. ...
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Since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, many have examined the European descriptions of India as reflections of the power/knowledge nexus in the colonial state. Few, however, have capitalized on Said's insight that whereas the Orientalist discourse appears to be a description of a place in the world (viz. the Orient) it actually is a description of how the West has experienced the Asian cultures. This panel will present a research program which studies the West and its cultural experience by approaching Orientalism as a description of that experience. Since Orientalism developed in continuous interaction with, and as a part of the growth of, the social sciences, both making claims about man and society, the latter cannot possibly be an alternative to Orientalism. Rather, the social sciences reflect the West's experience of itself. To understand the way the western culture has described both itself and others is to begin understanding this culture. The challenge of Orientalism, then, is a challenge to understand the western culture. 2. Taking this heuristic as a starting point, the papers in this panel will look into different aspects of the European understanding of India. Rather than accepting the post-colonial claim that ‘Hinduism', ‘the caste system' or ‘secularism' are colonial constructs in Indian society, they will look at these entities as patterns or structures in the European experience. These experiential structures came into being along with the historical development of Europe. That is, to explain the origin and nature of entities like ‘Hinduism', ‘the caste system' and ‘secularism', one has to examine the historical process which gave shape to the West as a cultural configuration. To do so, a hypothesis is required that not only conceptualizes the characteristic dynamics of this process, but also tells one how the western culture differs from other cultures, such as the Asian. Moreover, such a hypothesis should reveal the link between the...
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